Dallas Texans president Lamar Hunt celebrated with his team after they defeated the Houston Oilers in a 20-17 overtime win in the AFL Championship on Dec. 23, 1962, at Jeppesen Stadium in Houston.

This is a weekly snapshot of what was happening in Dallas, the nation and the world the year President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Dallas: Lamar Hunt announces he is moving his American Football League Texans out of town. Despite wining the 1962 AFL championship, the Texans were losing at the box office to the National Football League Cowboys. Rumors about the Texans’ new home focused on Kansas City, where Hunt was meeting with Mayor H. Roe “The Chief” Bartle.

Texas: Four black students register for classes at Southwest Texas State College in San Marcos under court order. One of the four students had been denied admittance to the school — the alma mater of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson — when officials cited a state law limiting enrollment to whites.

Nation: President Kennedy suggests that Marine officers be tested by the standard President Theodore Roosevelt set in 1908. The Rough Rider said Leatherneck captains and lieutenants should be able to hike 50 miles in 20 hours. The 50-mile hike became an icon of Kennedy’s fitness challenge to the nation.